
Bezawit joined CRISP in November 2017 and was initially responsible for managing internal security and privacy audit activities. Over time, she developed a broad understanding of the organization’s infrastructure, security environment, and underlying requirements necessary for comprehensive security management and earned progressive leadership roles. Bezawit is an experienced Compliance and Security professional with a demonstrated history of successfully collaborating within the health IT sector. She has led organization wide programs in accordance with federal and state regulations and other compliance requirements, information security frameworks (HITRUST, SOC-2, EHNAC), internal design control, audits, and risk-based vendor management with an underlying passion to continually operationalize information security & compliance.
Bezawit holds a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science from Jackson State University has her B.Sc. and M.S. from Jackson State University. Bezawit completed a thesis-based M.Sc. degree in colon cancer research.